Authors: Agosti, M; Coppotelli, T; Ferro, N; Pretto, L; Dept Informat Engn; Dept Informat Engn; The increasing number of users and the diffusion of Digital Libraries (DLs) has increased the demand for newer and improved systems to give better assistance to the user during the search of resources in collections managed by Digital Library Systems (DLSs). In this perspective, the annotations made on documents offer an interesting possibility for improving both the user experience of the DLS and the retrieval performance of the system itself. However, while different approaches based on annotations have been proposed, they still lack a full experimental evaluation, mainly because an experimental collection with annotation is missing. Therefore, this paper addresses the problem of setting an adequate experimental test-bed for DL search algorithms which exploit annotations, and discusses a flexible strategy for creating test collections with annotated documents. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007. Agosti; Coppotelli; Ferro; Pretto

Journal: English

Conference: 10th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL 2007

Publisher: Springer

Published: Agosti M.; Coppotelli T.; Ferro N.; Pretto L.

DOI: WOS:000252143400023

Issue: 4822, Pages: 159-Annotations and digital libraries: Designing adequate test-beds